Quotes about college-life

Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

I go back to Oberlin in the dead of winter to give a "convocation speech" in Finney Chapel, the largest and most historic of campus structures. In a subconscious nod to my college experience I forget to pack both tights and underwear and have to spend the weekend going commando in a wool skirt and knee socks. I am toured around the school like a stranger by a girl who didn't even go here. We stop at a glossy new cafe for tea and scones. She asks if I want a tour of the dormitories- no, I just wa

Chad Harbach - The Art of Fielding

It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him come home, they could refuse to pay the portion of his tuition they’d agreed to pay, but they couldn’t see his jeans. “Understood,” he said.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Life is science.

Michael Metzler - Carpe College! Seize Your Whole College Experience

It’s YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you’d like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don’t look left and right and wonder why you’re not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you’re on and make the most of it. Carpe College!

Slicktor Victor Robinson -

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Self learner reading.

A.E. Samaan -

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy the clergy of oppression.

Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

If I had known how much I would miss these sensations I might have experienced them differently, recognized their shabby glamour, respected the ticking clock that defined this entire experience. I would have put aside my resentment, dropped my defenses. I might have a basic understanding of European history or economics. More abstractly, I might feel I had truly been somewhere, open and porous and hungry to learn. Because being a student was an enviable identity and one I can only reclaim by att

Parul Wadhwa - The Masquerade

I am a palette of emotions; I remember how I have cov-eted to be free from the school rules. I look around to see people casually dressed up and walking with an aim maybe to make a better career or just add fame of DU degree like me. The campus is buzzing with freshman and activity. I just hope, these corridors, hallways, and passages don’t see me trip-ping and falling any day. I feel more comfortable standing in between the crowd of people moving. Like nobody is paying any heed. You can be your

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The world of books is my fantasy.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Failure is a sign post, directing the right road for life’s journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

If I don’t succeed, I will try again and never stop trying.When I succeed, I will again explore new opportunities.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

Parul Wadhwa - The Masquerade

Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.

Parul Wadhwa - The Masquerade

College life is different, entirely different like you don't have to get ready and wear that red and crisp blue school uniform and look alike every day. Free to define ourselves with statement attire. Good thing.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Find your passion and live it!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn’t to overcome the difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We are capable of learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I love to teach children science.

Kirstie Collins Brote - Beware of Love in Technicolor

Our first kiss was there on the bridge in the woods. How do you describe a first kiss? It is like trying to hold water in your hands. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that compares kissing to drinking salted water. “You drink, and your thirst increases,” it says. Time, I’m sure, passed by, but we remained unavailable for comment.

Chandra Sekhar - Failure Race : A story never told before

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Pursue your dreams with great might.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Failure is not the end of life. It is the beginning of a greater success, if thy will persist.

Sanhita Baruah -

A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "confidence"- the constant fight.A million roads I dream to takeOne destination, knowing not I turn where.A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say,"You are, dear, but so inadequate".

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Education must be an equal opportunity for all.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You must endure willingly for the fulfillment dreams

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Read good books to improve yourself.

Parul Wadhwa -

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

Michael Metzler - Carpe College! Seize Your Whole College Experience

For this very short time in your life, and possibly never again, you will be given a very unique gift: a supremely rich environment with ample time, space, safety and people to explore whatever interests you intensely, to push yourself, to make mistakes and recover from them, and to live as deeply as you'd like in the hope of finding yourself or, at least, the beginnings of yourself.Such an opportunity may never present itself again. So, embrace it and.... Carpe College!

Geetanjali Mukherjee - Reduce Stress and Improve Your Grades

Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed. ... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Education stimulates self-study.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Life is school.Be a student for life.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Life is a continue learning process.Each day presents an opportunity for learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

A book is a treasure of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Life is learning process. We must keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Keep learning, keep learning!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

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